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14 years ago

Forcing Quartus to use Cyclone IV embedded multipliers

I really need to free up some LEs so it would really help if my LPM_MULT blocks could be implemented in the embedded multiplier blocks. How do I do that? I've looked at the documentation and in...
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14 years ago

Yes, I've set the Cyclone IV in the megawizard.

I've looked in the .vhd file and it says

-- THIS IS A WIZARD-GENERATED FILE. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!

This doesn't surprise me, and I guess I can ignore it.

When you suggest setting DEDICATED_MULTIPLIER_CIRCUITRY, what's the syntax and where in the file does it belong?